{"id":632808,"date":"2026-10-16T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632808\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:32:09","slug":"artemis-ii-heat-shield-after-splashdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632808\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/reference\/orion-spacecraft\/#hds-sidebar-nav-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orion spacecraft\u2019s<\/a> heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal protection system effectively safeguarded the crew and Orion systems as the spacecraft reentered Earth\u2019s atmosphere. This rigorous analysis confirmed that the heat shield performed as expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/artemis\/artemis-2\/rigorous-analysis-confirms-nasas-artemis-ii-heat-shield-performance\/?utm_source=TWITTER&amp;utm_medium=NASAArtemis&amp;utm_campaign=NASASocial&amp;linkId=1021788731\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn how Orion\u2019s heat shield was examined.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: US Navy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly after NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[14504,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-632808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis-2","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}